Combination-tool.



M. B. GRBENHUT. E COMBINATION TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 19, 1912.

1,058,049. Patented Apr. 8, 1913.

WITNESSES INVE NTOR E. Greenhut:

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ATTORNEY MORRIS E. GREENHUT, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A t. 8,1913.

Application filed April 19, 1912. Serial No. 691,788.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS E. GREENHUT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to produce a combination tool of novelty and advantage, and particularly a tool such as would be useful to waiters in restaurants and public eating houses as well as for household use.

In the drawingsFigure 1 is a side view of a tool embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a View similar to Fig. 1 but with one side plate of the handle removed. Fig. 3 shows one use of the tool. Fig. 1 is an edge view thereof.

As shown this tool embodies five separate instrumentalities asfollows: a cigar cutter a, a knife I) for cutting tinfoil and like coverings with which a cork is commonly sealed in a bottle, an extractor a for the patent cap closures for bottles, a cork screw d and a can opener e.

The handle is denoted in'general at 1 and is made up of side plates 2, 2 which are suitably riveted together, and which support the pivot pins upon which some of the moving parts turn.

5 is a lever-plate pivoted at 6 in the handle and having formed integrally therewith the cigar-cutter a; and the cap extractor c. It is slotted as at 7 to receive the upper spring arm 8 of the spring 8 which holds it in normal position. It' is connected by the pin 9 riding in the slot 10 with an operating lever 11. The cutter b is pivoted in the handle at 12 and slotted as at 13 to receive a pin 1e on thelever-plate 5. The spring normally holds these parts up in the position shown in full lines in Figs. 1 and 2. Pressing down on the operating-lever 11 at or near the point indicated at 4 causes the cigar-cutter to operate, throws the cap extractor 0 out to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 and moves the cutter I) up to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, beyond the guard-plate 15 which normally protects this cutter.

16 is a plate which is intended to rest upon the top of the cork when the cutter b is being used.

To use the cork screw it is turned out to the position shown in Fig. 3, being held by the lower arm 8 of the spring 8, the end also engaging a shoulder 17 on the leverplate 5 to hold this lever-plate in retracted position while the cork screw is'being used. The operating lever 11 which normally is engaged with a pivot-pin 18 in the handle through the hook 19 is disengaged therefrom and turned down to the posit-ion shown in Fig. 3 so that the shoulder 20 will rest on the neck of the bottle and give a leverage to assist in the extraction of the cork. The can opener comprises the centering pin 30 pivoted in the handle and the cutter 31 which slides in the groove 32, the centering pin 30 acting as a pivot about which the cutter is swung by the handle in the operation of opening the top of a can. When not in use the cutter and pin occupy the position shown in Fig. 2, andthe shoulder 33 acts as a stop for the pin 34 connecting the sides 35 of the operating lever 11 which lie outside of the handle as clearly seen in the drawings. The centering pin 30 has a projection 36 which throws the cutter 31 up into position when the pin is moved out to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig.

1. The centering pin 30 is also useful to break or tear off the wires used many times for holding in the corks of bottles.

I claim as my invention:

1. In an article of the character described, the handle, a lever-plate pivoted therein, a cutter and a cap extractor connected with and operated by said lever-plate, and means for moving said lever-plate.

2. In an article of the character described, the handle, a lever-plate pivoted therein, a cigar cutter and a cap extractor connected with and operated by said lever-plate, and means for moving said lever-plate.

3. In an article of the character described, the handle, a lever-plate pivoted therein, a cigar cutter and a cutter connected with and operated by said lever-plate, and means for moving said lever-plate.

4. In an article of the character described, the handle, a lever-plate pivoted therein, a cutter, a cap extractor and a cigar cutter connected with and operated by said leverplate, and means for. moving said leverplate.

5. In an article of the character described,

a handle, a lever-plate pivoted therein provided at one end with a cap extractor, a cork screw pivoted in the handle, and a shoulderon the leverpl'ate'adapted to be engaged by the end of saidcork screw when the latv ter is moved to itsoperative position to hold said extractor in retracted'position.

5 6. In an article of the character-described,

, '7. In an article of the character described;

a handle, a lever-plate pivoted therein, a

cap extractor operated by saidlever-plate,

a cork screw pivoted in the handle, and a shoulder on the lever-plate engaged by the loqend of said cork screw inits operative pofsition to retain the cap extractor in its 're- ..tracted position.

aahandle, a lever-plate pivoted therein, a cutter operated by said lever-plate, a cork screw pivoted in the handle, and a shoulder on the lever-plate engaged by the end t tof s'aidt cork screwin its-operative position ,tqretain the cutter in its retracted position. 8. In an article of the character described,

-a{handle, a lever-plate pivoted therein, a cap extractor carried, by the lever-plate, means fornormally holding said lever-plate in retracted position; an operating lever for mov- 5 ing-J said levemplate, a cork screw pivoted i-n the handle, and a shoulder on said leverplate adapted for engagement with the end of said cork screw when the latter is in its. I operative positionto prevent movement of:

;the lever-plate from its retracted position.

9. Inan article of the character described,

a handle, a plurality of tools supported by said handle, including a cork screw, and

means adapted in one position to operate as a fulcrum for said cork screw and in another position adapted for the simultaneous operation of the other instrumentalities.

'10; Inanarticle of the character described, a: handle, a I lever-plate pivoted therein, a plurality ofimplements mounted in the handle operated by -said lever-plate,

an operating-lever normally connected with saidlever-plate and by which it is moved to bring said implements into operative posiwtio'n a cork screw pivoted in said handle,

said operatingdever being adapted for detachmentgwith said-leVer-plate and for cooperation with said cork screw for'thepurposes specified.

11,1111 "an -article of the character described, a handle, a lever plate pivoted therein, a plurality of implements mounted inthe handle and operated by saidleverplate, an operating-lever for said leverplate; a can openercomprising a cutter, a v

centering pin, and a shoulder on "said; cente ring pin adapted to be engaged bye-said 7 operatinglever. v i

[MORRIS E. GREENHUT.

,VVitnesses: I

O?NE1LL, H. E. HART. 

